My home state of Massachusetts has never elected a woman to the U.S. Senate. But we have the chance to make history tomorrow by voting for Elizabeth Warren. Now I don’t vote for women merely because of their gender. Although I do believe we need more women in electoral office at all levels. But as the “Sheriff of Wall Street,” Warren has fought for working class and middle class families, students and seniors. And she will fight for women’s rights.

Scott Brown wants you to believe he will too. He tells us over and over that he’s a pro-choice dude, a regular guy sporting a barn jacket driving a pick-up truck. See, ladies??? He must be one of us! Clearly he will work for us and fight for our rights.

Um, no. Brown wants you to think he and Warren share the same views on women’s rights, including equal pay and reproductive rights. But they couldn’t be more different.

Brown has repeatedly stated that Warren is wrong, that he IS pro-choice. Brown has run ads stating he’s pro-choice. One ad features Brown’s wife talking about how he would never not support women’s rights living in a house with women. (While he may be a great husband and father, isn’t this the same guy who tried to pimp out his daughters??) Just saying. In a recent ad, Laurie Myers, founder of Community Voices, a child protection and victim advocacy organization, vouches for his supposed “pro-choice” record.

See ladies, other ladies say Brown is pro-choice…he MUST be! But Brown is far from pro-choice.

“Through our conversations, I’ve heard, ‘what if somebody has a sincerely held religious conviction about dispensing the emergency contraception medication? What about their rights? How do we address those?’“…It’s not about the victim.”

Wow. So the victim isn’t important?? I’m sorry but when we discuss rape, shouldn’t the victim be the only important person??

“We consider him a senator who votes pro-life. We have to take his word for it when he says he is pro-choice. But what we’re looking for is someone who votes pro-life, and he does.”

Fox is right about one thing. We should all be watching how Brown votes.

Brown also claims he supports equal pay like Warren. He often says he would have (shoulda, coulda, woulda) voted for The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. As great as that legislation is, it does NOT ensure equal pay for equal work. Rather it extends the statute of limitations to bring lawsuits against pay discrimination. So if Brown supports equal pay, he must have voted for it, right?? Nope.

“As a father and husband of women in the workforce, I believe strongly in fair pay, and employers who discriminate against women should be prosecuted aggressively. The bill before the Senate today was flawed and overreaching. It’s the right cause but the wrong bill. On the heels of last week’s dismal jobs report, the last thing we should be doing is putting more job-killing burdens on small businesses and employers. Instead, we should be focused on creating jobs for women who, like all Americans, have been negatively affected by the employment crisis.”

Part of a U.S. Senator’s job is to vote to confirm Supreme Court Justices. So who does Brown look up to? In the second debate in Lowell, MA, Scott Brown said Justice Antonin Scalia was his “model” Supreme Court Justice, the same judge who opposes Roe v. Wade and contraception access. But this shouldn’t come as a surprise as Brown also endorsed Paul Ryan as Vice President, a frighteningly anti-choice politician.

Brown claims he’s an independent politician. But considering his voting record eroding reproductive rights, it feels like nothing more than empty posturing. Too often he’s right in line with the anti-choice misogyny of the GOP.

“As with Governor Romney, Brown clearly believes that positioning himself as a defender of women’s reproductive rights is a necessary minimum to be elected to statewide office in Massachusetts…Unfortunately for pro-choice voters, Brown’s idea of pro-choice doesn’t resemble the kind of broad support for women’s reproductive rights and health care access most of us think of when we wield the term. Brown has regularly chipped away at women’s reproductive rights without pressure from his own party: indeed, he acted to narrow reproductive rights even when he had to face off against his own party and didn’t stand to gain politically.”

“I have no doubt Senator Brown is a good husband and a good father to his daughters. But this is an issue that affects all of our daughters and granddaughters. And what matters here is how Senator Brown votes. So he’s gone to Washington and he’s had some good votes. But he’s had exactly one chance to vote for equal pay for equal work and he voted no. He had exactly one chance to vote for insurance coverage for birth control and other preventive services for women. He voted no. And he had exactly one chance to vote for a pro-choice woman from Massachusetts to the United States Supreme Court and he voted no.“Those are bad votes for women. The women of Massachusetts need a senator they can count on not some of the time but all of the time. I want to go to Washington to be there for all of our daughters and all of granddaughters. This one really matters. There’s a lot at stake here.“…I am a mother of a daughter and grandmother of granddaughters and this is about their future. I want to be blunt. We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work and access to birth control in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago until the Republicans brought them back.”

Elizabeth Warren is right. Scott Brown doesn’t want you to look at his voting record. He wants you to take his word that he’s pro-choice, an advocate for women. As one of my favorite actual advocates for reproductive rights would say, “What a bunch of malarkey.”

And Warren’s right again when she says we shouldn’t still be fighting for equal pay or birth control or abortion. Despite what they say, the GOP, including Scott Brown, don’t want women to have equal rights.

If a politician like Scott Brown says their pro-choice enough times, or Mitt Romney says he’s a moderate, many people will believe their hollow promises. But actions speak louder than words.

Warren boldly stood up to Washington to protect people’s financial rights. And she will do the same for our reproductive rights too. Even if you don’t live in Massachusetts, the Warren/Brown Senate race impacts the rest of the country. The party that will control the U.S. Senate rests in the hands of Massachusetts voters.

In the very first debate, Brown told Warren to “stop scaring women.” But women across the country should be scared if Elizabeth Warren doesn’t win tomorrow’s election. The GOP continues to wage its ongoing War on Women. They won’t stop until they eradicate all reproductive rights. Despite what he says, Scott Brown has towed the party line, turning his back on us far too many times.

While abortion, contraception and other reproductive rights don’t trump other issues, it makes me wonder. If we can’t depend on politicians to uphold basic human rights of bodily autonomy — to trust us to make decisions about what’s right for our own bodies — what hope do we have they will ever protect any other rights?

Scott Brown’s faux pro-choice stance is no substitute for the real thing.